archive_Caligula
08-11-2004, 02:46 PM
Someone made this statement and it reminded me of a topic I wanted to bring up...this being the topic.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> It is much easier to be critical and mean spirited rather than to do it. They are envious. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This is so true it's disgusting. Why is it that the better you do, the more people try to hold you down? I have been training a woman for about 1 and 1/2 years now and she has made amazing progress. She was 6'0 (and still is http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif) and weighed 178 lbs when I started training her. All of her co-workers were rooting her on and wishing her luck on her fitness venture. Now, she is weighing right around 151 at 6 foot...and all her co-workers say now is, "your too skinny....you need to not workout so much". Or they won't ask her to go to lunch because they know she doesn't eat anymore. Truth is they don't want their fat-asses to be seen with her. I have had the same thing happen to me and most exercisers I talk to are treated the same way.
I wonder if this has something to do with the way steroids are being admonished. Someone once said that it is more socially acceptable to admit to cocaine use than to steroid use. And that is true if you ask me. Are people just so absurdly jealous that they will take any means necessary in order to keep other people fat and ugly like themselves?
It just amazes me how people can be about other people looks. If you get a new car everyone says, "wow, that's cool!" or if you get a new outfit or hearcut you get the same reaction. But if you get your ass into shape, it's a completely different story. The same woman I train told me that the only people who support her now are the people at the gym and me.
That's pretty damn sad.... Someone works hard for something and people look down on them for it. Bottom line is...because they are jealous. That and I believe because of our reality t.v. it is becoming ever increasingly P.C. to judge other people openly, no matter how that makes them feel.
Or maybe I'm just ranting because I hate people! http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif
http://www.anabolicfitness.net/images/caligula.jpg
"That Which Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger"
Curious
<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> It is much easier to be critical and mean spirited rather than to do it. They are envious. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This is so true it's disgusting. Why is it that the better you do, the more people try to hold you down? I have been training a woman for about 1 and 1/2 years now and she has made amazing progress. She was 6'0 (and still is http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif) and weighed 178 lbs when I started training her. All of her co-workers were rooting her on and wishing her luck on her fitness venture. Now, she is weighing right around 151 at 6 foot...and all her co-workers say now is, "your too skinny....you need to not workout so much". Or they won't ask her to go to lunch because they know she doesn't eat anymore. Truth is they don't want their fat-asses to be seen with her. I have had the same thing happen to me and most exercisers I talk to are treated the same way.
I wonder if this has something to do with the way steroids are being admonished. Someone once said that it is more socially acceptable to admit to cocaine use than to steroid use. And that is true if you ask me. Are people just so absurdly jealous that they will take any means necessary in order to keep other people fat and ugly like themselves?
It just amazes me how people can be about other people looks. If you get a new car everyone says, "wow, that's cool!" or if you get a new outfit or hearcut you get the same reaction. But if you get your ass into shape, it's a completely different story. The same woman I train told me that the only people who support her now are the people at the gym and me.
That's pretty damn sad.... Someone works hard for something and people look down on them for it. Bottom line is...because they are jealous. That and I believe because of our reality t.v. it is becoming ever increasingly P.C. to judge other people openly, no matter how that makes them feel.
Or maybe I'm just ranting because I hate people! http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif
http://www.anabolicfitness.net/images/caligula.jpg
"That Which Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger"
Curious